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Uncle Abe / Was Abraham Lincoln gay?
Classical music / Heartfelt and thought-provoking: Eugene Onegin, at the Royal Opera, reviewed
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From Spectator LifeClassical music / Heartfelt and thought-provoking: Eugene Onegin, at the Royal Opera, reviewed
From the magazineBooks / Few rulers can have rejoiced in a less appropriate sobriquet than Augustus the Strong
From the magazineFrom Shy Di to international icon / How ballet lessons transformed Princess Diana
From the magazineStation frustration / Euston is the best of London
From Spectator LifeMixed messaging / Our many signs of confusion
From Spectator LifeFat chance / Obesity will soon be history
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Our many signs of confusion
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From Spectator LifeI’ve just seen a graph which surprised me only slightly less than one might which showed that the majority of people in the UK thought that Keir Starmer could be trusted to tell the truth about what he had for breakfast. It shows that US rates of obesity have started to fall. The reason, according
Euston station is the best of London
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Israel’s revenge
Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating – attacks, which decapitated its Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, and killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran. But the regime may have self-immolated by firing missiles at Israel
Israel is reshaping the Middle East in its favour
Iran has fallen into the trap set by Israel. It has taken the bait after months of failing to respond to a series of devastating – and humiliating – attacks, which decapitated its Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, and killed the leader of Hamas in Tehran. But the regime may have self-immolated by firing missiles at Israel
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A stone-cold banger: Black Myth – Wukong reviewed
From the magazineGrade: A Remember the mad 1970s TV series Monkey? Here, excitingly, is the closest you’ll get to it in videogame form. In a pre-credit sequence, you are the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, and you not only fly about on a little cloud but suffer from that headache-inducing circlet on your bonce. The main game is
Melodramatic body-horror – but I don’t regret seeing it: A Different Man reviewed
From the magazineFaultless visuals – shame about the play: the National’s Coriolanus reviewed
From the magazineHeartfelt and thought-provoking: Eugene Onegin, at the Royal Opera, reviewed
From the magazineHave today’s TV dramatists completely given up on plausibility?
From the magazineWhat has become of the Wellcome Collection?
From the magazineThe world is on fire – yet navel-gazing still reigns in pop
From the magazineCartoons
‘‘I hope this doesn’t degenerate into a Tory leadership contest.’’
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‘‘I’m having it fun checked.’’
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‘‘Heh, good luck with that!’’
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